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Even in a litigation-obsessed nation, fen-phen stands alone. After reports that the diet drug damaged heart valves, American Home Products, now Wyeth, pulled its fen-phen products and girded itself ...

Kentucky's highest court suspended three attorneys Thursday over questions about how they divided a $200 million settlement over the fen-phen diet drug. The ruling by the state Supreme Court came ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 71-year-old healthy female who has struggled with my weight all my life. In the ‘90s, I thought I had finally found the solution in fen-phen. It was like a miracle! It took all ...

BURLINGTON, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – A Kentucky judge has ruled that a once-prominent plaintiffs attorney should also be liable for the $42 million judgment against the attorneys who scammed their ...

Medical experts agree the diet drug combination known as fen-phen damaged the heart valves of many recipients before it was pulled from the market in September 1997. There is considerably less ...

PHILADELPHIA — Drug maker Wyeth is preparing to distribute $1.28 billion from a supplemental fund to about 40,000 people who took a diet drug linked to heart problems. The money will come from the $21 ...

A federal judge today granted approval to Madison-based American Home Products” (NYSE: AHP) $3.75 billion national settlement with former users of two of the company”s medicines used in the ...